Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-08-12
Aailn rss Ind 9akotaiaA
WENT THROUGH ABRIDGB
YER TWO nuNDRED KILLED
Sizzling to Death in the Burning.
Ears.
REscuING THE UNFoRTuNATEs.

REscUING THE UNFoRTuNATEs.
Merry Making Tourists Brought
Rack in Cofins.
a WHOLE TOWN IN MOURNING.
Two Hoodlers ssntenced-Killed at a
Railroad Crossing "A Heavy
LOSS by Fire.
PEORIA, Ill, Aug. 11.-An excursion
train Of two engines and fifteen coaches
with two. or three hundred passengers
from this city and surrounding villages,
which left here for Niagara Falls, went
through a bridge at Chatsworth, H.,
seyenty-one miles east OF this place, and
nc less than one hundred persons were
killed. 1t is said eight or nine coaches
were burned. The sceae about the depot
here is terrible. Crowds of weeping and
frantic people are enquiring for friends
that We're IN the il,fated train. Tho
trouble seems to have been. that the
bridge over Vermillion river was set fire.
and the stringers were SO weakened they
let the bridge down into the bed OF the
stream with all the cars, Al train Of
twelve coaches will reach here soon.
Oyer one hundred are still at Chatsworth
In the town hall, school house and on the
platform. All but Aye sieepers went
through tho bridge.
The bridge through which the cars fell
Was q small enc. 1t had been partially
burned which weakened Ii and ten
Coaches either went through to the bed
OF TIE stream or were piled up In promis-
Gt1otIs henps croaswise and lengthwise on
the track. So far seventy bodies have
been recovered and mono haye been
taken from the cars underneath and not.
even q sound can be heard from them.
1T is feared all In those cars are dead and
the number Of killed Will reach two
hundred. The wounded as far as can bs
aseertaiped will number one hundred and
fifty.
CHICAGO, Aug. 11.--Illinois Central Of
nciais In this city say the train was
drawn by two engines aud AS ahey are
informed consisted of fifteen sleepers.
40 went through the bridge two miles
west Of Piper City, and about half way
senand enaina hrnLa tbra,,af ~ ,uans
down. takiup tha cars ys,t1, ~ ,rhs
Wagner sieepinp car os9ca ~ Ire Taras
shore denoti haa n for,, fhat fo,,r ~
It's cars were S,iirt,ed nm h,st tl.ay IA M
know how many aars were killed ~
injured, but the humber ID undonbtrdiy
largo.
now IN !. , n,,,,,vr
onioaso sAuB. tine ihtohsocsan !
Peoria special. referring to the CHATS
worth wreck, says: Is was the largest
excursion and the largest .passenge
train ever taken out ever the Toledo
Peoria and Warsaw railroad. The train
consisted OF fifteen coachaB, Including
! five ~sleeperB. Two engines were re-.
quired TO pull it. but only one Of these
WAS attached at the dspot. the other he.
ing sent ahead to the other side oftne
lllinois river bridge. AT the depot be.
fore the tram started, Engineer MoClin-
took, who was killed ia the w:eck ex-
possulated with General superintendent,
Armstrong abouts the way the train Was
made up, insisting that it should have
been sent out intwo sections, but hls
words were Of no oval. It ia said thaj
very Jew OF the bridges on the Toledr
Peoria aud Warsaw road can stand the
etrain OF two spch heavy engines Us draa
this tram, and this seeing to Sc born.
ont by the fact. that the railroad ofie,al,
did not deem ii beat Ia frnst tha an.
gines on the bridge across the river here
The awful calamity 6ecured 81
a comparatively email culverl
about ten feet long and not more thar
twelve feet high. The engineer on the
forward engine saw fire as he drew noaI
the bridge, but supposed It to be grass
on hre. Wien too late he saw it wat
thecnivert itself ablaze, and upon THU
tottarlng~ structure the train plunged
going OF Q rate Of thirty miles mn honr
safely. The second went into the ditch,
baryiDg and Killing MeClintock, and II
efter ~ Game the rest OF the train, al
the coaches except the sleepars piling In
and telescopEng. For an instant the
sontid oficrashing timbers a stilled
then from out ofthe awful silence rost
the gfoans and cries of agony, and flames
leaped into b darkness. and q storm
arlsing, the wind and rain added terrol
and dlHmay to the awful scene. Even
IN her cruelty, fate was lenisni
for she was willed thatsnoat Of those
who were killed should die instantly. a
passenger who YVES on The third coact
says that he WAS gsfrst conscious of q ial
md that hen the cars Wen together
the noise resembied o red hot iron touch,
ing water. The trucks dropped of, let
ting the ooHoheE down. All the suryiy